Creepy Clown Sends Sick “Message” to Woman… Not So Funny When He Gets Her Reply

Ah, clown sightings. Just in case 2016 wasn’t depressing and violent enough already, random clowns have been spotted all across America, doing creepy things and scaring lots of people.

One clown in Maine tried to send a sick “message” to a woman by making a gun sign with his hand. The woman managed to one-up the clown, though, pointing her 9 mm handgun right back at him when he became threatening.

The story came out of Auburn, Maine, where the unnamed 49-year-old woman had been sitting on her porch.

According to the Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal, about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, a black sport utility vehicle pulled up to the curb. That’s when the rear window went down, and “a scary clown” was revealed.

“He had a red Afro wig on and a red nose,” the 49-year-old woman said. “The smile was creepy — the painted-on one” and he had a “clown-looking shirt/costume.”

“I say, ‘I’m not afraid of clowns,'” the woman said. “I started laughing. It’s almost Halloween, so I didn’t think too much about it.”

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But that’s when things got serious: The clown made the universal shape of a gun with his hand. To make things more ominous, he mouthed the word “bang” at her.

The clown forgot one thing, though: Maine had recently become a “constitutional carry” state, which means residents don’t even need a permit to carry their firearm, be it open or concealed. Our female protagonist had taken full advantage of this, thankfully.

“I picked up my 9 mm — I didn’t point it at him directly,” she told reporters, “and said, ‘Back at ya, clown.'”

It perhaps goes without saying that neither the clown nor the individual(s) driving him decided to stick around for refreshments. However, the woman still found herself jittery after the encounter.

If this seems extreme, consider the fact that the woman told reporters that children were playing and people were walking at the time the creepy guy decided to pull up. She didn’t know what he would do — to them or to her.

It seems entirely likely that this was a prank designed to intimidate residents. Thankfully, this woman showed one of the reasons behind the Second Amendment — Americans need not be intimidated in their homes or neighborhoods.